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NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS. 



feet of elevation, are not gregarious in the sense of going in flocks, but three or four 

 are often found together. The males are extremely pugnacious, and Wilson states 

 that, having shot one, and while it was fluttering on the ground in its death-throes, 

 another male rushed out of the jungle and attacked it with the greatest fury. Like 

 many of this genus, the male kaleege makes a singular drumming sound with its 

 wings, either for the purpose of attracting the females, or in defiance of its rivals, 

 and a favorite method of capturing these birds is to fasten a live male in some open 

 place, and imitate the drumming sound, when other males rush out to fight him, and 

 are easily shot or caught in the snares set for the purpose. The general habits and 



FIG. 103. Euplocamus melanotus. 



nidification of the kaleege pheasant are very similar to the silver pheasants and others 

 of the same genus. 



The genus Lobiophasis contains but one known species, L. bulweri (the bird de- 

 scribed afterwards as L. castanei-caudatus, being in immature plumage), and was 

 created for the elegant pheasant obtained by Mr. Ussher on the Lawas River in Borneo. 

 This bird in many particulars is peculiar, if not, indeed, unique. There are two erect 

 horns of nude skin behind the ears, and two smaller ones at the base of the nostrils, 

 while two lobes hang from the angle of the bill. The plumage is metallic of various 

 hues, and the tail is pure white, the feathers, thirty in number, are rather stiff, and the 

 shafts bare of webs towards their extremities. The tarsi are spurred. The female is 

 brownish chestnut, all the feathers finely vermiculated with dark brown. The tail is 



